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vivabrighton<br />
<strong>Issue</strong> <strong>34</strong>. Dec <strong>2015</strong><br />
editorial<br />
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Interviewing this month’s My <strong>Brighton</strong> subject, Andy Winter, got<br />
the office talking about misattributed quotes. Andy, the CEO of<br />
<strong>Brighton</strong> Housing Trust, revealed that he’d never learnt to drive,<br />
and thus tended to travel by bus. This led to him quoting Margaret<br />
Thatcher: “Any man seen riding on a bus after the age of 30 should<br />
consider himself a failure.” Wondering, later, when Thatcher said<br />
this, I dug a bit deeper, and found that there is actually no record<br />
of her ever saying such a thing. She almost certainly never did:<br />
but the sentence has been attributed to her so many times, it is as if she had. It certainly sounds<br />
like something she might say. We mean no criticism of Andy here: misattribution of quotes is<br />
so endemic, a rigorous website called The Quote Investigator has been set up to look into the<br />
phenomenon. Our favourite, after a little delve, is ‘sometimes a cigar is just a cigar’, attributed<br />
to Sigmund Freud, but almost certainly never uttered by the great psychoanalyst. Or Churchill’s<br />
put down to the woman who accused him of being drunk: “you’re right, Madam, but you are<br />
ugly and I shall be sober in the morning” which, if he did say, certainly wasn’t original. So many<br />
quotes, in fact, have been misattributed to the wartime PM, a term has been invented for it:<br />
Churchill drift. Enough said: there’s plenty more to read in #<strong>34</strong>, which we’ve dubbed, yulishly<br />
enough, the ‘Comfort and Joy’ issue. Enjoy it... and season’s greetings.<br />
The Team<br />
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EDITOR: Alex Leith alex@vivabrighton.com<br />
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